The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John DenhamJ. Nichol, 1857 - 329 pages |
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... pleasure we have got , But he ne'er has it that enjoys it not . In goodly prospects , who contracts the space , Or takes not all the bounty of the place ? We wish remov'd what standeth in our light , And nature blame for limiting our ...
... pleasure we have got , But he ne'er has it that enjoys it not . In goodly prospects , who contracts the space , Or takes not all the bounty of the place ? We wish remov'd what standeth in our light , And nature blame for limiting our ...
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... pleasure too . Of famous cities we the founders know : But rivers , old as seas , to which they go , Are Nature's bounty ; ' tis of more renown To make a river , than to build a town . For future shade , young trees upon the banks Of ...
... pleasure too . Of famous cities we the founders know : But rivers , old as seas , to which they go , Are Nature's bounty ; ' tis of more renown To make a river , than to build a town . For future shade , young trees upon the banks Of ...
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... pleasures of his youth suspended are , And made a sacrifice to public care . Here , free from court compliances , he walks , And with himself , his best adviser , talks ; How peaceful olives may his temples shade , For mending laws ...
... pleasures of his youth suspended are , And made a sacrifice to public care . Here , free from court compliances , he walks , And with himself , his best adviser , talks ; How peaceful olives may his temples shade , For mending laws ...
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... pleasures of your life , And shorten'd the short joy of such a wife ; 10 20 20 His lady ' : the Lady Anne Cecil , daughter of the Earl of Salisbury . See a previous note . For which your country's more obliged than For many lives ...
... pleasures of your life , And shorten'd the short joy of such a wife ; 10 20 20 His lady ' : the Lady Anne Cecil , daughter of the Earl of Salisbury . See a previous note . For which your country's more obliged than For many lives ...
Page 129
... Pleasures shorter than the day ? Could we ( which we never can ! ) Stretch our lives beyond their span , Beauty like a shadow flies , And our youth before us dies . Or would youth and beauty stay , Love hath wings , and will away . Love ...
... Pleasures shorter than the day ? Could we ( which we never can ! ) Stretch our lives beyond their span , Beauty like a shadow flies , And our youth before us dies . Or would youth and beauty stay , Love hath wings , and will away . Love ...
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Page 210 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 163 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Page 220 - What barbarous invader sack'd the land ! But when he hears no Goth, no Turk, did bring This desolation, but a Christian king ; When nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs ; What does he think our sacrilege would spare, When such th...
Page 220 - Thames ! the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity...
Page 213 - Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear.
Page 47 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair : Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
Page 200 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 221 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Page 219 - DO bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a false guide, to err by day...
Page 24 - While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear : When to the beeches I report my flame, They bow their heads, as if they felt the same : To gods appealing, when I reach their bowersr With loud complaints they answer me in showers.